Peecycling: could donating your urine to farmers help feed the world?

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Peecycling: could donating your urine to farmers help feed the world?
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Thanks to the war in Ukraine, there is a shortage of agricultural chemicals. As each adult produces enough pee annually to fertilise 145kg of wheat, perhaps bodily waste is the answer

of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. According to the Rich Earth Institute of Vermont, the urine one adult produces in a year – 125 US gallons – is sufficient to grow 320lbs of wheat.Making it an especially welcome idea at a time when industrially produced fertiliser is expensive and in short supply, thanks toIf I can use my pee to humiliate Putin, then that weird dream I had last week will sort of come true.

What’s more, those same nutrients, when flushed into wastewater systems, become contaminants responsible for creating environmentally damaging algal blooms.produce urine-rich bread? You’d also save about 4,000 US gallons of potable water annually, according to the Rich Earth Institute.If you live in Vermont, you can donate it by the jug. The foundation supplies free funnels and has a collection depot in Brattleboro. It can be “a little sloshy” at first,It’s largely an idea in search of the necessary infrastructural adjustments.

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